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The Reed College board of trustees welcomes two new members, who bring expertise in the fields of financial investment, product development, global strategy, operations research, and tech strategy.

Kurt DelBene of Medina, Washington, returns to the board after serving as senior adviser to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from December 2013 to June 2014. DelBene began his term as a trustee at Reed in April 2013, but when President Obama tapped him to rescue the troubled Affordable Care Act website, Healthcare.gov, he resigned all nonprofit board work due to Whitehouse conflict of interest policies.

The moving vans are gone, the posters are hung, and the pages of Gilgamesh are getting highlighted and dog-eared. The 374 enrolled members of the Reed College class of 2018 are high achievers, with an average high school grade point average of 3.9 and a median SAT score of 710 verbal, 680 math, and 690 written.

The discredited science of eugenics served as inspiration for Shades of White, an installation by Prof. Geraldine Ondrizek [art 1994–] created for the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. Prof. Ondrizek spent years researching the work of Alexandra Minna Stern, a medical historian at the University of Michigan and the author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America.

Ondrizek’s investigation led to a visual reinterpretation of the “Gates Skin Color Charts” created by R. Ruggles Gates and used by eugenicists in the mid-20th century to assign an individual's racial category.

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Reed College Professor of Religion Kambiz Ghaneabassiri was interviewed about the history of Islam in the United States. This interview took place at the 2014 meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Atlanta, Georgia.